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." >> narrator: so began the building of a religion. in the first two parts, with the help of scholars and historians, we tried to reconstruct his times, and how, after his death, a small jewish sect began to spread the word. tonight, how that story was told, and how a faith overcame an empire. ( music playing ) >> narrator: jewish resistance was not completely snuffed out after the sack of jerusalem. rebel fighters held out for four more years. the jewish historian josephus, who had taken part in the war, recounted the story: >> there was a fortress of very great strength not far from jerusalem which had been built by our ancient kings. it is called masada. >> the rock of masada, one of the most glorious places in all israel, became the major refuge point for some of the most extremist elements opposing rome. the zealots, and their most ardent supporters, fled right in the middle of the war to masada. >> ( dramatized ): here had been stored a mass of corn amply sufficient to last for years, an abundance of wine and oil. there was also
." >> narrator: so began the building of a religion. in the first two parts, with the help of scholars and historians, we tried to reconstruct his times, and how, after his death, a small jewish sect began to spread the word. tonight, how that story was told, and how a faith overcame an empire. ( music playing ) >> narrator: jewish resistance was not completely snuffed out after the sack of jerusalem. rebel fighters held out for four more years. the jewish historian josephus,...
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christianity is not just the religion that jesus had, it's the religion about jesus. it's the religion founded on jesus' death and resurrection. >> in his letter to the galatians, paul reveals exactly what jesus told him to do. "that i should announce him triumphant among the gentiles." it was a radical mission. >> he starts preaching there, to gentiles, to pagans and saying, "this is a faith that can touch you," and that must have been -- it must have -- the jews in the diaspora must have said, "my gosh, did we miss something? when did they suddenly make judaism into a universal religion?" >> people listened to paul because he was the perfect man for the job, able to speak to both jews and gentiles in their own language. >> so he's one of the first really powerful intellect to convert to christianity in the 1st century. >> just what did this cosmopolitan jew say to the pagans to make them give up their ancient gods and believe in jesus? >> this is the one who could heal your child, if your child was sick. this is the one who could end the drought, who could end the f
christianity is not just the religion that jesus had, it's the religion about jesus. it's the religion founded on jesus' death and resurrection. >> in his letter to the galatians, paul reveals exactly what jesus told him to do. "that i should announce him triumphant among the gentiles." it was a radical mission. >> he starts preaching there, to gentiles, to pagans and saying, "this is a faith that can touch you," and that must have been -- it must have -- the...
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the tale of a routine execution that gave birth to a new religion. yet from that unlikely beginning a great faith was born. and today some 2 billion people believe jesus was the son of god. but even as billions of people pledge themselves to follow jesus' teachings, we have known almost nothing about jesus, the man. no other great religious figure, from moses to the buddha to the prophet muhammad, is so shrouded in mystery. >> it's very difficult to classify jesus within a single category, whether he was a sage or a healer or a teacher or a charismatic figure. and i suspect the most accurate response to the question, "who was jesus at the time?" would be a mixture of all of these different identifications. >> the startling discovery of what some claim to be the burial box of jesus' brother james reopened the biggest detective story of all time -- the mystery of jesus, the man. the plain limestone container, called an ossuary, is inscribed with a tantalizing clue in aramaic, the language jesus spoke. "james, son of joseph, brother of jesus." the publi
the tale of a routine execution that gave birth to a new religion. yet from that unlikely beginning a great faith was born. and today some 2 billion people believe jesus was the son of god. but even as billions of people pledge themselves to follow jesus' teachings, we have known almost nothing about jesus, the man. no other great religious figure, from moses to the buddha to the prophet muhammad, is so shrouded in mystery. >> it's very difficult to classify jesus within a single...
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." >> narrator: so began the building of a religion. now it is our turn, with the help of scholars and historians, theologians and archaeologists, to return to that time and use our best efforts to understand that story... of a man born in obscurity in whose name a faith was made. >> narrator: we know so little about him-- that he was born more than 2,000 years ago, and that he lived in palestine. we know he was baptized and became a preacher. and we know that he was publicly executed. >> ( dramatized ): what manner of man is this that even the winds and the seas obey him? >> narrator: with so little evidence to go by, archaeologists must sift the clues, and scholars decode the stories told by the first followers of jesus. >> the problem for any historian in trying to reconstruct the life of jesus is simply that we don't have sources that come from the actual time of jesus himself. >> the historian's task in understanding jesus and the jesus movement and early christianity is a lot like the archaeologist's task in excavating a tell. you
." >> narrator: so began the building of a religion. now it is our turn, with the help of scholars and historians, theologians and archaeologists, to return to that time and use our best efforts to understand that story... of a man born in obscurity in whose name a faith was made. >> narrator: we know so little about him-- that he was born more than 2,000 years ago, and that he lived in palestine. we know he was baptized and became a preacher. and we know that he was publicly...